When organizers asked who was from out of state, more than half the attendees put their hands in the air. “The sheer numbers of people turning out and the far-flung places people are coming from — as far away as California. … What political activity in Virginia has created is a national meet-up day for people who consider themselves the people’s militia. Most of the time, we’re in touch on the Internet.”Virginia has some of the most permissive gun laws in the country. What’s stirred people up, Hulbert said, is how the state’s gun politics were upended in the space of just one election.

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2020 13:20 UTC